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TORCH.

No. 391,669. Patented 0613- 23, 1888.

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RICHARD IVHITAKER, OF NEWV BRUNSVVIOK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE CONSOLIDATED FRUIT JAR COMPANY, OF NINV YORK, N. Y.

TORCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,669, dated October 23, 1888.

Application filed July 27, 1688. Serial No. 281,192. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD WHITAKER,

a citizen of the United States, residingat New Brunswick, in the county'of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Torches, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in torches; and it consists in certain novel features of construction, as fully set forth in the following specification and claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a vertical sectionfin the plane :0 a" of Fig. 2, of a torch embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan or top View of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of a detail part, said figure being drawn to a larger scale than the preceding figures. Fig. at is a horizontal section in the plane y 1 Fig. 3.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings,referring at present to Figs. 1 and 2, the letter A designates the fount of my torch, which may be of any usual construction, and is here shown as made ofsheet metal, and provided with a screw-cover, a,with which is made integral the wick-tube b. In the body of the torch are formed two lateral openings, 0, for the introduction of the bent ends (Z (Z of the arms B B, which connect the fount A to the handle 0. The ends d d of the supportingarms serve as pivots, about which the fount can swing freely. 'To prevent leakage at the openings 0 c, closing-plates D D are soldered to the interior of the fount directly opposite thesaid openings, so as to cover the same. The closing-plates I) D may be made concave or cup shaped, so as to permit the ends d d of the arms 13 B to enter well into the openings 0 c, or the material of the fount about the openings 0 0 may be forced or pressed outward to form a socket, in which latter case the closing-plates can be made flat or, as shown in the drawings, Figs. 1 and 2, slightly concave.

On the end of the handle 0 is attached a revoluble head, E, which contains longitudinal Sockets 6 e that receive and retain the ends d d of the arms B B. In the example illustrated in the drawings a metallic cap, F, is loosely fitted to the handle and is held thereto by a screw, G, extending through its head. The cap can freely rotate about this screw as apivot. The head E, which is made of sheet metal, encompasses the cap F, and is secured thereto, so that the two will rotate together. The sockets e e of the head are best made integral therewith, Figs. 2, 3, and 4, and after the insertion of the ends d d of the arms B B the sockets and the ends (1 d are bent outward at a por' tion, as f, by the use ofa suitable tool,whereby the said arms are rigidly united to the head E and cannot move in or out. To secure the cap F to the head and to prevent it from moving up and down on the same, the cap can also be. caused to be engaged by the tool and is bent at f with the sockets and arms. a

It will be noticed that the use of solder is entirely dispensed with in securing the arms B B to the handle, and consequently the cost of manufacture of the torches is decreased and the joint is a more reliable one.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination, with the fount A, the handle 0, and the supporting arms B B, of the cap F, fitted to the end of said handle and turning about a pivot secured in the same, and the head E, attached to said cap and provided with bent sockets c 0, containing the corre spondinglybent ends of the supporting'arms, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the handle O and the supporting-arms B 13, secured thereto, of the fount A, having lateral openings 00 for the passage of the supportingarms, and the clos- 5 ing'plates D D, soldered to the interior of the fount directly opposite said openings, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribo ing witnesses.

RICHARD WHITAKER.

Witnesses:

A. L. FISHER, J. F. Caorsar. 

